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The picture shows the scene of the Mongolian army massacring the city.

Although it is a scene from a film or TV show.

It's much gentler than reality.

But the scene of blood flowing like a river still made many ancient people unable to bear to watch.

Outside the sky.

Late Han Dynasty.

Liu Bei sighed.

"After several years of war, the population dropped from 300 million to less than 50."

"Now the whole city surrendered, but was still massacred."

"I'm afraid that the number of people who will survive in Xixia will be less than 100,000."

"The Mongols of later times were so cruel!"

"Their brutality is far greater than that of Cao!"

"Kan Tianmu said that China was also occupied by the Mongols in later generations."

Thinking of this, Liu Bei couldn't help but sigh again.

“I wonder what kind of devastation the scene will be like then!”

……

The sky continues.

【And Temujin's order to massacre the city was also strictly enforced. 】

[After the last emperor of Western Xia, Li Yu, surrendered, Tolui immediately executed him, and then the Mongolian army launched a massacre in Zhongxing Prefecture. ]

[No matter nobles or common people, women or children, all will be killed.]

[According to records, the Mongols massacred hundreds of thousands of people in the city, and the wealth accumulated over hundreds of years was instantly turned into a living hell.]

[The emperor, prime minister Li Wei, Weiming Linggong and other nobles were all killed. The Mongols also looted the city. All the property in the city was looted, and many buildings were reduced to ashes in the raging fire.]

【Historical records show that "the fields were covered with bones."】

[There are only a few survivors.]

[In addition to the bloody massacre, the Mongols also destroyed the cultural classics of the Western Xia. ]

[Western Xia had its own unique writing system - the Xixia script. This was created by Li Yuanhao, the minister Yeli Renrong, on the eve of the founding of the country, based on the Tangut language and imitating the Chinese character creation method.]

[Nearly 6000 Xixia characters carry a lot of information about Xixia’s history, culture, religion, etc.]

[However, after conquering Xixia, the Mongols burned a large number of books and documents written in Xixia language.]

[Countless precious documents were lost, causing Xixia characters to gradually fade out of people's sight and become a "heavenly book" that no one could decipher.]

[The religious culture of Western Xia was not immune.]

【Buddhism was prevalent in Western Xia, and many magnificent temples and pagodas were built. 】

[During their conquest, the Mongols destroyed these religious buildings on a large scale.]

[Many exquisite Buddha statues were smashed, murals were painted over, and temple buildings were demolished.]

[Those religious relics that embody the wisdom and efforts of Xixia craftsmen and carry the faith of the Xixia people were destroyed by the Mongols, leaving only ruins.]

[The tombs of successive Western Xia emperors were also severely damaged.]

[The Western Xia Mausoleum is the result of the integration of multiple ethnic groups and multicultural exchanges such as the Dangxiang, Han, Uighur and Tubo. Its architecture integrates the mausoleum system of the Central Plains dynasty and its own ethnic characteristics.]

[But the Mongols carried out crazy looting and destruction on these tombs. ]

[A large number of burial objects were stolen, the mausoleum buildings were destroyed, and almost all the ground buildings were razed to the ground.]

[It can be said that they destroyed their country, slaughtered their people, burned their books, and dug up their graves. ]

【Ensure that this civilization will never be able to revive. 】

[So why did Mongolia treat Xixia so extremely and thoroughly? ]

[First, Xixia’s attitude was inconsistent during the Mongol-Xia war.]

[Sometimes they surrendered and became a vassal, and sometimes they tried to resist and unite with other forces to fight against Mongolia.]

[This behavior was natural for the Xixia, which had been invaded, forced to surrender, and oppressed.]

[But it made the Mongols deeply angry.]

【Think that Xixia cannot be trusted and must be thoroughly punished.】

【Secondly, from a strategic point of view, Xixia is located between Mongolia and the Jin Dynasty and has an important strategic position. 】

【Western Xia was located at the crossroads of the Silk Road and controlled the Hexi Corridor. It was a key springboard for Mongolia to move southward to destroy the Jin Dynasty and westward to Central Asia.】

[Genghis Khan had already set the strategy of "first destroying Xixia and then attacking Jin" as early as 1206. ]

[The Xixia's capriciousness made the Mongols realize that only by completely destroying this regime could they ensure a safe future.]

[In addition, the Mongols' destruction of Xixia's culture also had political considerations.]

[Although Xixia was small, it had a mature bureaucratic system, a unique writing system, and a highly Sinicized civilization.]

[At the same time, the people of Xixia were brave and valiant, somewhat similar to the bravery of the Mongols.]

[This is a potential threat to Mongolia, a nomadic nation.]

[What the Mongols needed was a submissive "Tangwu", not a "Dangxiang" that might restore its country. ]

[Therefore, they not only wanted to destroy the Xixia regime, but also to erase its civilizational memory and ensure that the Dangxiang people would no longer have the possibility of rallying to resist.]

[The Mongolian policy of destroying nations was extremely successful.]

[After the fall of Western Xia, the Dangxiang people fled in all directions, some of them assimilated into the Mongolian, Tibetan, Han and other ethnic groups, and a few fled to the border between Sichuan and Tibet, forming today's "Muya people." ]

[Almost all of the Xixia characters and classics have been lost.] [Xixia has also become the most mysterious ancient civilization.]

[It was not until 1804 that the Qing Dynasty scholar Zhang Shu discovered the "Western Xia Stele" in Wuwei, Gansu, that this lost civilization re-entered the world's vision.]

[Looking back at this period of history, the extreme means used by Mongolia to destroy the Western Xia was both revenge and a strategic necessity, and it was also a complete conquest of the agricultural civilization by the nomadic empire.]

[Genghis Khan told the world in the most cruel way. ]

[No capricious regime is allowed to exist in his empire.]

【And Xixia became the first victim of this iron-blooded policy. 】

……

The video ends here.

Barrages of comments appeared one after another.

"Too brave... They almost wiped out the whole clan."

"I heard that Genghis Khan asked the Xixia princess to sleep with him, and then she bit him off..."

"The Xixia defense was strong enough, and it held out for more than 20 years. It was not until all the cities around the capital were destroyed that it was destroyed."

"The territory of the Western Xia is small, but it has an army of 500,000 strong, and it has defeated the Liao and Song armies. The Jin Dynasty also did not gain any advantage from the Western Xia. "

"Everyone in the Tanguts is a soldier. Fang Xiaoqiang, the monster of East Asia, has become the hatred of the Mongols. "

"Fighting to the last soldier, running out of ammunition and food, all I could see were soldiers being defeated and killed, sacrificing their lives for their country. I admire you."

"Massacres are common, destroying Asian civilization, so disgusting!"

"Now the Dangxiang people have been completely assimilated into the Han nationality, and their culture has also completely followed the Han nationality."

"Why didn't the Song Dynasty go to support them? Jin and Xixia have become shields for the Song Dynasty. Once they are gone, the Song Dynasty will be finished."

"In fact, if the three kingdoms of Xia, Song, and Jin formed an alliance at this time, they could still consume Mongolia to death."

"The Western Xia was completely wiped out, so how can later generations study them?"

"It's surprising that Russia has historical materials on this, right?"

"The person who has done the most in-depth research on Xixia in the world is actually Da Mao. Can you guess why?"

"At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a Russian explorer went to the northwest, bribed the local prince Dash, dug up the ruins of Heishui City, and stole thousands of Xixia cultural relics. "

"The Qing Dynasty was such a waste! The Yongle Encyclopedia was also lost by the Qing Dynasty."

"After reading it, I can only say that firearms are really good things."

"When Mongolia rose to power, it did not encounter a unified country. If it had been the Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties, wouldn't Mongolia have been driven back to the northern desert?"

……

Netizens were discussing it enthusiastically.

And after the ancients read it.

Qin Dynasty, Ying Zheng said:
"The Mongolian Empire hated Xixia. After destroying their country, they also wanted to completely erase all traces of the country's existence. I can understand this."

"When they hate Xixia so much, it's normal for them to behave in any way they want."

“But we have to say that the Mongol Empire was quite professional in massacring cities and destroying nations, and even wiping out the traces of an entire nation and civilization.”

"With this set of measures, Xixia will be able to continue to the future generations."

"I'm afraid there really aren't many."

Ying Zheng sighed first.

Then he added: "Perhaps, I can also imitate the Mongolian methods."

"There is no need to preserve many of the things left behind by the remnants of the six kingdoms!"

And in the Southern Song Dynasty.

After seeing the final outcome of Western Xia, Zhao Gou also felt very sad.

Zhao Gou pointed to the Great Song River and Mountain Map on his desk and said:
"Look, Xixia in the northwest of the Song Dynasty was once one of the Song Dynasty's biggest concerns."

"Previous emperors fought for a hundred years but were unable to completely eliminate Xixia."

"Fortunately, now that I have established the new Song Dynasty, I don't have to worry about the enemy Xixia."

"Solving the problem of Western Xia is a great progress for the Song Dynasty under my rule."

"Otherwise, this Xixia country, where every citizen is a soldier and the people are tough, will become another enemy that is a headache for the Song Dynasty."

Zhao Gou was quite proud of himself here.

Then continued:

"As for Xixia's fate, it can only be said that it was their own fault."

"As a country, the most important thing is credibility. We have already surrendered to Mongolia, so how can we change our mind overnight?"

"If Xixia had honestly provided Mongolia with logistics and vassal troops after its first surrender to Mongolia."

"How could it end up with such a tragic end that not only the country was destroyed, but also the entire Tangut people were completely wiped out?"

tomorrow.

Zhu Yuanzhang, a former Yuan Dynasty man, added:
"There are actually some omissions in this section about the sky curtain."

"Then within the Mongol Empire, the Tanguts were also an important part of the Semites."

"So the Dangxiang people were not completely exterminated."

"Of course, their culture was indeed cut off by the Mongols."

"The Mongols are indeed cruel!" (End of this chapter)